ARTIST STATEMEnt

My works span across contemporary jewelry, body jewelry, fashion art, sculpture, and conceptual installation, and contemporary jewelry is the primary medium of my current artistic research. I treat jewelry as a tool to explore the relationship between human bodies and their surrounding spaces as well as a visual language that is delivered to others without real words.

I liken myself as a storyteller, who narrates stories that seem to be trivial and common but actually express strong and genuine emotions. For me, these stories feel like small but shining treasures forgotten by others. But, I, as a traveling person, as a junkman, as a storyteller, pick them up and transfer them into unique and refreshing wearable arts. I transfer personal experiences and intuitive feelings into images and then collect the information from the forms and colors of the images to transform them into jewelry work.

Background

Dongyi Wu (she, her) was born and raised in China. She is a contemporary jewelry artist, who is currently working as an artist-in-residence at the University of Arkansas at Little Rock, Arkansas, US. Dongyi received her Master’s Degree in Metal and Jewelry Design from Rochester Institute of Technology in United States, and her Bachelor’s Degree in Jewelry Art Design from Beijing Institute of Fashion Technology in China, and her Dual Degree in Fashion and engineering from the same undergraduate school in China.

Dongyi has her works shown nationally and internationally, such as JOYA 2020 in Barcelona and Schmuck 2018 in Munich, and recently presented her sixth solo exhibition Shadows of the Daylight, Glimmer of the Nighttime at the Clamp Light Studios & Gallery, in San Antonio, TX. Dongyi was one of the winners of Preziosa Young 2020 in Italy, a finalist for the Lydon Emerging Artist Program (LEAP award) in the United States in 2019, and a finalist for the ENJOIA’T 2017 Contemporary Jewellery Award in Spain in 2017.